[OPEN MINGLE] So long, and good movie night.

[groupiedrifter]

CHARACTERS: Everyone! Top level away!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall
DATE: Sometime after the mission, but before the main festive station log.
CONTENT: Movie Night! Probably the last one ever. What the hell, guys. Also, birthdays, christmas tree ornament making, and robot fish. And food from... particular places.
WARNINGS: None! People will mark anything accordingly.

So, nearly the end of the road, huh? It's crazy how fast things have gone. Or how slow. Or both? Either way,

Newt plans this one like it's maybe the last one — like, sure, his movie night thing was kinda stupid. Dorky. Whatever you wanna call it. But the idea of it being the last one kind of gets him all... choked up? In private, anyway. He's not about to get all weepy about the impending loss of his teammates when they all (probably) head home and (maybe) forget each other.

But that's something to think about later.

For now — movies and food, as the good fucking lord baby Jesus intended in December. Well, mostly. Newt isn't against launching into a long history lesson on paganism and all of the pitfalls of commercialized Christmas. Please, don't let him fall down that rabbit hole. Instead, enjoy the pretty lights that are strung up, leading into the mess hall. Probably courtesy of Yzak, honestly, because Newt isn't that coordinated when it comes to pretty colors and decor.



Onto the important stuff first! There are... four — yes four! — birthdays they're going to each be singing for.

Yes, all four get their own song. It'll start up the moment the last song is done, and each of the birthday kiddos get a little cake to go with it.

Finn, Natasha, Chishiya, Alina... here is what happens when you leave this guy in charge of getting cakes.



Make sure you give them all presents. We should enjoy the birthdays we've got to celebrate, right? And with cake comes food. But not just any food, no. There is a metric megaton of food at this movie night; a banquet, even, and some of you may find the food... oddly familiar? But not from your world, no. These all appear to be samplings of different foods from... different missions. Yes, from Badrock snake to Viveca's world and their questionable tablets, every single planet or universe is accounted for. Enjoy, guys. Or don't, because some of the food is kinda weird.





The movies tonight are much more feelgood, save for the, uh... Romeo + Juliet option that someone had recommended. Honestly, 8 Crazy Nights had been on the cutting room floor for the holidays, but who doesn't love an excuse to watch a bunch of muppets reenact the ye old tale of Ebenezer Scrooge?



And near the projector, there is also a very pleasant-looking white tree, glowing with a prism of many colors. And next to that, there's a collection of arts and crafts tools at one's disposal. Feel free to create an ornament, team; it can be as stupid or as dead serious as you want. Whatever the case, this poor pagan-inspired tree is too naked, and that's sad.

(And yes, in case you're wondering — Newt did, in fact, make that little alien ornament in the examples. Of course.)

There's one final offering that Newt has, in the form of what is... some kind of large fish tank? Yes, there's a large aquarium in the corridor, just outside of the mess hall, where there are clearly little... robotic fish swimming around? More studious members of the team may have noticed him feverishly building these little suckers the last... half a year? Maybe more? He's been busy either way. Newton wastes no time pointing out the one that was created based off you, either.



Feel free to stop by, so that he can show off the little toy fish (or other critter of the sea) that is in dedication to his teammates. (No, really, comment here and you'll get a specially made fish.)

Happy Holidays, and here's to the last mission, guys. Whatever it's gonna be.

The tree so far:

Comments

COMMENT HERE FOR YOUR ROBOTIC FISH

[groupiedrifter]

(Example) Newton Geiszler

[groupiedrifter]

dean winchester | supernatural

[ruinously]

GIMME FISH

Yzak Jule

[coordination]

I GUESS!!

joric

[drawsblood]

Please give this avid fisherman a fish that really speaks to him!

yujin mikotoba

[softshoes]

fish please...

lan sizhui (in the right place now, don't @ me)

[deferences]

gib feesh pl e a se

Darkling / Aleksander

[cruelyethuman]

Fish me, please!

Finn Starwars

[hatejakku]

FEESH i know how to reply to things

[dispassioned]

fish please!

andromache

[oiorpata]

🐟🐟🐟

clarke griffin

[romancekiller]

fish please!

Sherlock Holmes

[astudyinviolet]

Psish?

yennefer of vengerberg

[choicely]

fish for yen pls!

Black/red fish of mystery lineage???

[singlelogbridge]

Fish please!

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

[locumstudentesquire]

IS IT TOO LATE FOR A FISH

COMMENT HERE TO MAKE AND LEAVE A TREE ORNAMENT

[groupiedrifter]

(Example) Newt's Ornament

[groupiedrifter]

yujin... and ryu... and also yzak

[softshoes]

The three of them make a good handful of these babies because Yujin bullied them into being team players and then Ryu and Yzak tipsily got into the Crafting Zone. Don't get in glue gun range, it's a bad idea.

joric

[drawsblood]

After staring at the supplies on the table, Joric returns to his room and comes back with his wood carving supplies. In around two hours, he's left a series of these on the table.

[hatejakku]

After becoming a bit tipsy throughout the night, Finn ends up planting himself at the crafts table. Awhile later, he sighs, rubs his face down, and leaves about 15 or so of these bad boys in his wake.

joe — open

[malta]

☾ romeo + juliet

[ joe really have a love hate relationship with this movie. one the one hand, this is the best mercutio he has ever seen in his entire life and thanks to how much his sisters love theater, he has a seen a lot of mercutio's over the years.

on the other hand, ] Fuck Shakespeare.

[ the man died 500 years ago and yusuf al-kaysani will not give it a goddamn rest. ]

☾ ornamenting

[ when he is not talking shit about shakespeare, he does watch the other movies, but he spends a lot of time making ornaments because he likes having something to do with his hands. some of them are delicately cut from paper into vestigial geometric shapes, carefully painted in golds and blues and greens, a little bit like paper snowflakes. others are carved from airdry clay it resemble facets of alhambra.

another still looks like a birthday cake with careful cursive spelling "happy birthday, jesus".

he holds one of them up. ] How does it look?

☾ wildcard

( go where your heart takes you or hit me up on disco @ dostoevskyish or plurk @ baleinette if you want to hash anything else out xoxo )

☾ romeo + juliet

[endofcompliance]

[Bucky can't help himself, he gives a chuckle to the commentary. Romeo and Juliet itself is overrated, enough. The idea the source was turned into a movie and influenced so many other romance stories is just ridiculous. This particular version, to him, is rather odd. He still watching it for the experience, though.]

Yeah. I was hoping for something new. [Especially after missing some seventy years of film.]

Natasha Romanoff | MCU | OTA

[deaddrop]

Holy Shit, he actually found it.

[Meaning the Black Widow cake. At least it doesn't have her on it. A little redhead cake topper would have been too much.

Yelena would never let her hear the end of it as it was.

Of course, it would be rude not to take a slice, which she does. And she takes a big chunk of the hourglass symbol while she's at it.

Look, it's her cake.

She deserves it.]

[groupiedrifter]

Of course I found it!

[He says it with some zeal, leaning into Natasha with the usual obnoxiousness that comes with confirmed friendship with Newton Geiszler.]

You really think I wouldn't, birthday girl? I'm an item drop pro.

andromache | ota

[oiorpata]

[ to think, once upon a time (exactly how long ago her arrival she still can't process) andy hadn't bothered with the movie nights, and now she can't imagine avoiding this one, especially with the undercurrent of finality. she stockpiles her plate with a little something from every mission, balancing the ever present bottle of vodka under her arm as she takes in the current festive set up. she's refreshing her memory of the food, she's definitely forgotten some of it. ]

[ she is far older than christmas, but she likes crafting, likes to use her hands for things other than weapons sometimes, so she's not even drunk when she makes her way to the crafting table and gathers up a bunch of straw pieces and some ribbon. she's gonna make a little gavle goat! easily one of her favorite traditions - the burning, naturally. ]

We probably shouldn't set it on fire while it's on the tree... [ why is her tone so wistful?? ]

[ her top movie choice of the night is romeo + juliet, despite the depression. she settles onto the couch with a slice from each of the cakes (she waited for the targets to take their share, she's not that rude). it's not her favorite shakespeare play, but it'll do. ]

Fuck what anyone says, this is what Shakespeare would have wanted. [ as she shoves a bite of cake into her mouth unceremoniously, it sounds like she is speaking from personal knowledge. and she is. ]

Romeo + Juliet

[astudyinviolet]

Even if the costume and setting are all different and I do not catch many of the references, the words, the cadence, the plot, I know this.

[ Sherlock's wrapped up in a blanket and staring at the film. Forgive him for being completely mesmerized by a movie (He's Victorian, and this is his first movie night) and the fact that it is something he is familiar with. For once, he's not completely ignorant of what is going on because he's from the past. ]

Did this production also perform Hamlet? I'll admit that it's not exactly the best time for the play, but I haven't seen it performed since... since a long time.

Ziggy Berman | Fear Street

[shadysided]

I. Cake Boss

Okay, am I going to be getting a personalized birthday cake in Feburary, or did I not make the cut-off? I'm going to be so annoyed if I'm stuck in another mission during my 18th...

[Ziggy stares down the cakes, a knife in her hand. Yes, she's absolutely planning on collecting on every cake that is available. Forget for a moment that she's already half-lost in a food coma after eating way too much from the banquet of mission-themed foods...]

As a legal adult next birthday, I'm demanding one with glitter and lightning bolts.

II. Ziggy, The Grinch

You know what? I think I'm on Scrooge's side a little bit.

[Sitting crosslegged in front of the movie projector, she considers the movie in question with a pursed mouth. It's been hard to fall asleep these days — more than usual, anyway — especially when you're dreading whatever happened during the last mission, with the orb. So chattering while eating straight out of an ice-cream carton seems like the right thing to do.]

Like, yeah, he's an asshole. But Christmas is also not that big of a deal.

Sometimes Christmas totally reeks.

II. Ziggy, The Grinch

[endofcompliance]

It costs a lot of money, too. Scrooge might not have much of an excuse for that to be an issue, but for poor families, it can be.

[ He might sound like he's speaks from experience there. They always found a way, of course, and that's no longer his situation, but he's got Ziggy's back on this one. ]

Maybe Scrooge is doing it for the wrong reasons, hating Christmas. But shouldn't his view be respected?